DEPARTiAIENT OF ENTOMOLOGY 



TEACHING 



The courses of lectures and of laboratory work offered in the College 

 Announcement, 36 in number, were given as announced and in nearly 

 every case they were well attended. 



There vvas a marked increase in the number of students taking work 

 in the Department. The total number of undergraduates was about six 

 hundred, and of graduates sixteen. 



The scope of the instruction given was enlarged by the transference of 

 the work in nature-study to this Department, and by the establishment 

 of a course in Aquiculture under the direction of Assistant Professor 

 Embody. 



INVESTIGATION 



The results of several pieces of investigation by members of the staff 

 of the Department and by advanced students have been published during 

 the past year. A list of the more important of these publications is 

 given below. Some of this investigation has been referred to in previous 

 reports as being in progress, but in the accompanying list only published 

 works are included. Many short commvmications that have appeared in 

 scientific journals and in leaflets are omitted from this list. 



J. H. Comstock. The Spider Book. A manual for the study of 

 spiders and their near relatives, scorpions, pseudoscorpions, whip scorp- 

 ions, harvestmen, and other members of the class Arachnida found in 

 America north of IMexico, with analytical keys for their classification 

 and popular accounts of their habits. 735 pages, 770 illustrations. 

 Doubleday, Page & Co., Garden City, New York. 



J. H. Comstock. The Evolution of the Webs of Spiders. Annals of 

 The Entomological Society of America, \'ol. 5, pp. i-io. 



James G. Needham. Notes on a few Nymphs of Agrioniae (Order 

 Odonata) of the Hagen Collection. Entomological News, Vol. 2.2, pp. 

 342-345, October, 191 1. i plate. 



James G. Needham. Notes on Some Nymphs of Gomphinae (Order 

 Odonata) of the Hagen Collection. Entomological News, Vol. 22, pp. 

 392-396, November, 191 1. i plate. 



James G. Needham. General Biology. Fourth (revised) edition, 

 February, 1912. 542 pages, 283 figures. Comstock Publishing Company, 

 Ithaca, New York. 



James G. Needham. Fish Culture for Farmers. Canadian Farmers' 

 Magazine, June, 1912. 



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